Beet-harvester.



No. 840,482. PATENTED JAN. 8', 1907.

v C. DUSSEAU.

BEET HARVESTER.

APPLICATION FILED APn.2.19oe.

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PATENTED JAN. 8, 1907.

C. DUSSBAU. y BEET HARVESTER.

APPLICATION FILED APB.2. 1906.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 l To all whom it may concern..- I

erence beingv had to the accompanying drawrow, -thus facilitating lthe gathering of t e -ot construction hereinafter described, and

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Aspout hereinafter referred Lto removed; and

' 5, upon the axle 1 and at their rear -ends UNITED STATES 4 ATE'NT OFFICE.

CORNELIUS DUssEAu OF TOLEDO," OHIO. Bear-HARVESTER.

Specication of Letters Patent.v

Patented Jan. 8,1907.

pplioation filed April 2, 1906. Serial N o. 308.686.

Be it known that I, CORNELIUS DUssEAU, a citizen of the United States, rcsidin at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and tate of Ohio, have invented vcertain new .and useful Im rovements in Beet-Harvesters; and I do dec are the followin to be a full, clear, and exact description o i he invention, such as will enable Others skilled in'the art to which it appertains to make and use t-hel same, refings, and to the figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

M invention relates to a beet-harvester, and as for its object a construction by which the beets as they are dug from several successive rows may be deposlted in a sin le` beets in wa ons when veyed from t e field.

A' further object 'of my invention is to so arrange the mechanism which conveys and deposits the beets in a sin le row, as'above stated, thatthe beets shall e separated from adhering earth and clods.

My invention also relates to certain details they are to be conpointed out in the claims.l

I attain these Objects b means of the de vices and arran ement o v arts hereinafter described, and s own and lustrated in the accompanying drawings, in ywhich- Figure 1 is a sideelevation of my machine with one of the supporting-wheels removed; Fig. 2, a top plan view ofthe same with a portion ofthe main shaft broken away; Fig. 3, a rear'elevation of the same with the down- Fig. 4 a Fig. 1. i

Like numerals of reference indicate like pa'ts throughout the drawings.

plan viewin' section taken on line :v

ln the drawings, 1. is the main shaft of my machine, sup orted fixedlyupon the driving'- e tongue 3 is rovided at opposits sides with'brackets 4, t e downwardlyprojectingends ofwhich arel journaled upon the shaft 1. Apair of braces 5 5, composed of lstout barsof iron, are fixed at theirforward. end to the tongue, are journaled, as at converge, and are connected together. (See Fig. 3.)

6 6 are a pair of shares or points arranged centrally of the machine and designed to dig or scrape aefurrowat opposite sides .of and close to the beet row. The shank's of the diggers 6 converge at their rear ends and are secured to and form part ofthe ends of paralle] rods 7, which extend upwardly and backwardly to the rear end of the machine.

. The diggers 6 are secured, respectively, to the lower end of a baror hanger 8, the u per end of which is pivot-ally connected wit and is supported by a link 9, asA at 9". The upper end of the link is pivoted, as at 10, to the ex tremity of the arm of a bell-crank lever 11, the handle of which is Within convenient reach ofthe driver and operator. This lever has a pawl and segments. rack, the pawl having a andle by means of which it is enga ed with any tooth of its rack, so that the 9 and its burden may be raised or lowered to and retained at any desiredheight. The parts 7', 8, and 9 are braced and-given direction by means of hanger 12, pivoted, as at 13', l

chine and are pivoted ard' supported alike.

Upon the rearwardly-projectinor sides of the frame 5 is journaled a shaft 19, txe projecting end of which forms `a pivotal s'ulpport for the upxper end of hanger 20, the owerend of w ich is rigidly secured to the angle-bar .17.,-

On the shaft 19 is a sprocket-wheelVZl',

Vdriven by endless chain 22,-passing over a sprocket-wheel 23, loose on the shaft 1. The

sprocket-wheel 23 is thrown into and out of engagement with its shaft by means of a.

clutc 23a. (See Fig. 2.) Upon the shaft 19 is a beveled ear-wheel 24,which engages and drives anot er beveled gear-Wheel 25 on the upper end of shaft 26, the lower end of which 'carries a sprocket-wheel 27. The

shaft 26 is journaled and supported in theA IOO . 35 36. The upper fingers lower end of a bracket 28, the up er end of which forms a sleeve 29, which embraces and is supported by the shaft 19. The sprocketwheel 27 carries an endless chain 30, which passes over another sprocket-wheel 31, journaled and.A mounted upon a bracket 32, secured to and projecting downwardly from a cross-brace 33, secured at o posite ends to thearts 17, as shown. Cfiain 30 Vhas secure to its outer side at equidistant intervals pairs of horizontally-projecting fingers have, respectively, an upwardly-turned portion 35a and in their course move directly above the pair of rods 7 toward the rear of the machine, while the lower lingers 36 move in the same direction directly beneath the pair of rods 7, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 4. The diggingonts 6 and the parallelf'rods 7 are disposed 1n such relation to the fingers 35 36 that the fingers as the vehicle *moves forward catch' the beets the instant they are lifted from the ground and before they have time to fall over, and the beets, ridin upon the two adjacent rods, are forced by t e fingers backwardly to the rear end of the machine.

35b is a presser-bar arranged above and 1 close to the side of the ways 7 7 and su ported near its lower end by a rod 35, sli ing in bracket 35d and at its upper end supported by and sliding upon rod 35e. held normally toward the traveling chain 3.5 by means of s rings 35i. This bar prevents the beets as t ey'travel upwardly along the ways 7 from to plin'g over.

37 is a trough swiveled at one end upon the bracket .18, as at 38, and leading downwardly from near the discharge end of the rods 7 to near the ound. A crank 39, secured to the up er e of the trough, is provided with a rol 40, leadin to a lever 41 within convenient reach of t ye driver. The throw of the lever actuates the rod 40 and the crank 39 and swings the trough, as may be desired. Tire lever 41 is provided with a pawl and segmental rack to hold the lever in any desired position. The 'trough is of sufficient length to describe in its swing a semicircle of such diameter as to include, referably, five rows of beets-that is, a middle row and two rows on each side of the middle row. I

42.is -a horizontally-disposed sharp shearing-blade designed to cut the tops from the beets in advance of the approaching diggingpoints 6. The knife 42 at its opposite ends is mounted upon the forward extremities of armsl 43, the rear extremities of which are pivoted, 4as at 44, upon the parts 8. The.

arms 43 are connected by a cross-piece 43, and the arms, with 'their cross-piece, are suspended by 'bar'45 from a toggle 46, pivoted' at one-end, as at 47,

to the upper end of the v piece 45 and-at its other end to the tongue 3.

The bar 35i is The ivot-pin 47 'engages a slot 48 in the forwar end of a connecting-rod 49, the rear end of which is pivotally connected with the pivot-pin 10 on the lever 11. The throw of 'the lever 11 actuates the rod 49, the slot of whichA at the proper moment catches and swings the togg e-bar 46 in the arc of a circle, raising and lowering the bar 45, with its sus pended burden, in harmony with the raising and lowering of the digging-point 6, as above described.

t Assuming that the machine 'is in motion, that the lever 11 is in position indicated in Fig. 1, that the diggers and topper are in operative position, as indicated in Fig. 1, that the clutch 238L is in engagement with sprocketwheel 23, and that the trough 37 is in the position indicated by the dotted lines in Fig. 2, now the operation of my machine is as follows: The beets are lifted by the diggingpoints 6 and are immediately caught by one pair of the fingers 35 36, which bestride the rods 7, and the beet is caused to slide upon the inclined way 7 7 upwardly over and into the upper end of the trough 37. Clods andadhermg earth by the vibration of the chain 30 and their fingers 35 36 andthe movement of the machine are loosened and fall to the ground. The ascending procession of beets passes into the top of th'e trough and slides y its own gravity onto the ground in a row directly behind the machine. As the machine returns upon the adjoining row of beets the lower end of the trough is swung to a point immediately above tie row first dug. Passing back on the other row adjoining the first row the trough. is still in position to discharge upon the middle row without further adjustment. Returning now by the second row from the middle row the trough is swung at a right an le, as illustrated in Fig. 2, so that the beets wiflbe discharged u on the iirst row, this adjustment of the troug return trip on the fifth row. It will be seen that the lower end of the trou h is thus constantly over the middle row o the five rows which have now been dug.

. W'hen the machine is not in operation, the topper and diggers by the backward throw of the lever 1 1 w11 be lifted from the ground and above obstructions, and the ways 7, the chain 30, and its fingers 35 36 will'accommodate themselves to the different positions of the digging and topping devices. This change of osition of these parts is permitted and facihtated by pivoting the swinging frame upon shaft 1 and by the chains and sprockets and the shaft 19 moving in the arc of acircle on which shaft 1 is the center.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a beet-harvester, a digging mechan- I serving for the IOC o IIO IIi

ism, an open inclined way leading upwardly and rearwardly from directly behind the `digging mechanism, an endless chain, connections between the supporting-Wheels of the machine and the chain for driving the chain,

fingers upon the chainlwhich traverse lengthwise the inclined way', an inclined trough swiveled at its upper en'd at the discharge 'end of the inclined w'a'y, and means for the horizontal adjustment of the lower end of the trough.` A'

2. In a beet-harvester, a digging mechanism, a pair of inclined rods leading u Wardly and rearwardly from the digging mec anism, an endless chain one stretch of which Wmoves parallel with said rods, and pairs of fingers secured to and projectl horizontally from said chain and arrange to bestride one of said rods, substantially as described.

3. Ina beet-harvester, a `pair of supporting driving-Wheels, a shaft for said Wheels, a sprocket wheel on said shaft, another sprocket Wheel, a chain `u on said 'two sprocket-wheels, a shaft or the latter sprocket-wheel, a support for said latter vshafj'l pivoted upon `the shaft first mentioned, another pair of s rocket-wheels, an endless chain thereon, rivi -gears intermediate said two pairs of sproc et-wheels, fingers on said latter chain, an inclined way traversed by said iingers, and a digging mechanism in advance of the lower end of said inclined way.

4. In a beet-harvester a air of supporting driving-wheels, a shaft or said wheels, a sprocket-wheel' on said shaft, another sprocket-wheel, achain upon said twol sprocket-wheels, a shaft for the latter sprocket-wheel, a support for said latter shaft pivoted upon.l the shaft first mentioned, lanother pair of sprocket-wheels, an Aendless chain thereon, drivin -gears intermediate said two pairs jof sproc et-wheels, fingers on said latter chain, an inclined way traversed by said fingers, a digging mechanism in advance` of the lower end of said inclined wa and a swiveled trough leadin downwardigr from the upper end of said inc ined Way.

5. In a beet-harvester, a topping mechanism, a digging mechanism, an inclined way leadingupwardly' and backwardly from the digging mechanism, a swiveled troue'h leading downwardly from the upper end of the in clmed way, an endless chain, fingers on the chaln arranged to traverse the inclined way,

l a lever, and pivotal connections between the lever, the topper', and the di ger, for throwng said parts into and outo operative posilon.

6. In a beet-harvester, a pair of supporting driving wheels, a shaft therefor, a sprocket-Wheel on the shaft, a second shaft, a sprocket-Wheel thereon, a chain for said two sprocket-wheels, a beveled 0ear-wheel on said second shaft, another beve edgear-wheel engaged therewith, a bracket 28 mounted upon said second shaft and sup orting said lastmentioned gear-wheel, a s aft for said `lastmentioned gear-wheel, a sprocket-wheel upon said last-mentioned shaft, a chain for said last-mentioned sprocket-wheel, fingersl on said chain, an inclined way` traversed by said fingers, a digging mechanism at the lower end of said inclined way, a` support for said bev-- eled gear-wheels inclined ways iin ered chains ling said pivotal supports.V

In testlmony whereof I afx my signature CORNELIUS Witnesses:

CLEM V. WAGNER, ADA LAw.'

in presence of two witnesses. y

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